Rivers

Rivers

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river.

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Rivers

These are kind of rivers that are lowland in which the bed and banks are made up of mobile sediment and/or soil. These rivers are self-formed, meaning that their channels are shaped by the magnitude ...

Canyon

Water bodies; Rivers

This is occasionally spelled'''cañon'''is a deep ravine between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river. Rivers have a natural tendency to reach a baseline elevation, which is the same ...

Bedrock

Water bodies; Rivers

This kind of river typically has little to no alluvium mantling the bedrock over which it flows. Such rivers are common in upland and mountainous regions. They are formed by incision into bedrock by ...

Thalweg

Water bodies; Rivers

In geography and fluvial geomorphology signifies the deepest continuous inline within a valley or watercourse system. It is pronounced valley way.

Dune

Water bodies; Rivers

In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by aeolian processes. Dunes occur in different forms and sizes, formed by interaction with the wind.

Avulsion

Water bodies; Rivers

In sedimentary geology and fluvial geomorphology, avulsion is the rapid abandonment of a river channel and the formation of a new river channel. Avulsions occur as a result of channel slopes that are ...